Frankly, knowing the leadership at Fluke Corporation, I can’t imagine that they saw, or were offered a comment on the use of their video promoting vibration sensing for a grouping of exceptionally well industrially-designed sexual enhancement “toys” — authored by Jimmy Jane.

Earlier, we worked for Fluke, creating a global brand and design strategy based on personality archetypes, framed by a worldwide testing framework. Our role was supporting the implementation of a new group of images, typographic systems that was designed to capture the hearts and minds of product experiencers who fit key personality characteristics.

The video is intriguingly compelling — in a hard-banging, mallet-on- a-can kind of way and, indeed, has a wailing beat soundtrack — but, in the nature of viral storytelling power, do people sense vibrations in the same manner, from the rawest physicality, bridged to scientifically tested results in tool sensing?

Cool tools, cool vibes?

When you watch the video, does it make you think about sex?
An added inquiry — does it need to?

Having known the Fluke leadership team and our efforts there, and studying the emergence of Jimmy Jane’s industrial design excellence and promotional strategy for years, I’d call it a cross promotion that is likely a big leap — from the hard-wiring of electrical testing, to the soft-wiring of sex.

Still, I looked. And wrote about it.
When you think about the idea of cross promotion — taking the strategy of one brand, and verging to another — what comes to mind?